Propaganda is a very effective tool for keeping people in line, and as a result, some governments, especially totalitarian ones, use propaganda to maintain total control over others. Oceania, in 1984, written by George Orwell, and North Korea, in Nothing to Envy, written by Barbara Demick, are able to keep their citizens quietly obedient, the countries isolated, and the climate hostile by deftly spreading exaggerated information to belittle other people. The governments of Oceania and North Korea use different types of propaganda to convey messages that help the images of the rulers and keep the people at peace with the government. Broadcasters in North Korea would “speak of Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il breathlessly and [carry] tales of supernatural
